Ukrainian farmers thresh almost 39 mln tonnes of grain

In particular, the agrarians completed the harvesting of early grain and leguminous crops from an area of 9.7 million hectares, having threshed 37.5 million tonnes of grain with an average yield of 3.89 tonnes per hectare.

Read alsoUkraine set for bumper grain harvest, exports - mediaAt the same time, 127,000 tonnes of buckwheat was threshed from an area of 110,000 hectares (61%), 62,000 tonnes of millet from 43,000 hectares (72%), and 660,000 tonnes of maize from 137,000 hectares.

In addition, the agrarians threshed 2.8 million tonnes of sunflower from an area of 1.6 million hectares (26%), 583,000 tonnes of soybeans from 334,000 hectares (17%), as well as dug 1.1 million tonnes of sugar beet and transported 920,000 tonnes of this product from 27,000 hectares (9%).

The highest yield of grain and leguminous crops was reported in Khmelnitskiy region (5.57 tonnes per ha), Ternopil region (5.27 tonnes per ha), Ivano-Frankivsk region (5.24 tonnes per ha), Chernivtsi region (5.04 tonnes per ha), Vinnytsia region (4.96 tonnes per ha), and Lviv region (4.83 tonnes per ha), the report says.

Read alsoUkraine sees almost 10% rise in average prices for agri-produce in 8 months of 2017As UNIAN reported earlier, during the spring sowing campaign, the agrarians sowed spring grains and leguminous crops on 7.17 million hectares. A total of 14.3 million hectares was sown by grain crops (including 7.15 million hectares – by winter crops). The total area of planting crops for the harvest of 2017 is estimated at 26.9 million hectares, which is 152,000 hectares more than in 2016.

Read alsoUkrainian agrarians already exported 7 mln tonnes of grainsUkrainian farmers planted 8.1 million hectares of winter crops and green forage in 2016, which was 3.8% up against 2015. At the same time, the area for grain crops increased by 1.5%, to 7,200 hectares, the State Statistics Service said.

Moreover, Ukraine harvested 65.95 million tonnes of grain and legumes in 2016, which was 9.7% more than in 2015. It was also a record for the whole period of the country's independence, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.